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This season Lakme Fashion Week 2009 (LFW) has got an overwhelming response from the Gen Next and Emerging Fashion Designers group as also from the Accessory Designers group. LFW has received in all 189 applications – 88 for Gen Next and 44 for Emerging Fashion Designers from 20 cities across the country from Nagaland to Jaipur, from Dehradun to Secundrabad. Also, 8 Accessory Designers along with 49 established designers have applied. The Advisory Board members short listed the most talented designers for the Gen Next and the Emerging Designer categories, and also for the Accessories Group show.

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With all these “fashion weeks” surrounding us, we managed to take some notes about designer’s ideas when it comes to fashion for spring 2011.

So, after taking notes from Paris Fashion week, where, the most eccentric show was presented by Jean Paul Gaultier, who invited a plus-sized model, Beth Ditto, to present one of his outfits, let’s move to New York Fashion week, where we burst into the pajama dressing style and the stunning bright white! Twice yearly, the Big Apple goes out of its way to welcome high-powered media moguls and Hollywood movie stars who come to see, or be seen, at one of the planet’s most celebrated fashion events that attracts over 100000 attendees.

When moving back to Europe, Milan Fashion Show embraced Prada as the best designer and it seems that all Miuccia Prada’s outfits were a real success in the fashion industry for the upcoming year. And last, but not least, London’s Fashion Week, Pam Hogg, was, by far the most interesting appearance. With her models wearing only chains, belts and purse-friendly chastity belts, she entered in a modern zone that nobody defeated!

Short idea on the prêt-a-porter collections, just a reminder of what you should focus on, when it comes to Spring 2011 fashion trends.

2011 Spring fashion trends:

1.    Jeans, wide-legs and flares are back.

2.    Biker fashion and everything included: biker leather jacket, motorcycle boots and pants. All leather! The trendsetter for this spring 2011 trend is without a doubt, Burberry, with its trench coats with subtle quilting and motorcycle jacket zips, red leather motorcycle pants and zipped motorcycle jacket sleeves.

3.    Sexy dolly lace! And when it comes to lace, you can wear blouses, skirts or dresses. The trendsetter for next year could be: Balmain. All about black sexy lace in its catwalk presentations.

4.    When it comes to accessories, it seems that we are beck in the 50′ and 60′s. Cat eye glasses, doesn’t matter sunglasses or eye glasses, just remember that generally speaking a cat eye frame with rounded-out edges will work wonders for a square face or diamond shaped face. And, the Clogs! Clogs with heels only. And you’ll be surprised by the multitude of textures they got! The sexiest we spotted are Chanel Clogs.

Read more: http://www.beautips.info/fashion-tips/spring-2011-fashion-trends-straight-from-catwalk/#ixzz12SJ8j3Ns

Introduction

India is becoming the latest fashion hub for the fashionistas. Indian designers are no longer confined to the domestic fashion and apparel market, they are gaining recognition and fame from all over the world. The various government policies and a boom in fashion industry have made it possible. One of the major breakthrough provided to Indian designers to showcase their talents are through the medium of fashion shows. Lakme India Fashion Show is the most popular fashion show celebration of India where the talents of already established and upcoming designers are showcased.

This event is a fashion celebration laced with lots of glamour and national as well as international media coverage. This time lakme India fashion week was held at Mumbai from 31st Oct- 4th Nov. Many high profile designers as well as audience witnessed this fashion fiesta. Famous bollywood celebrities were part of it.

Eminent designers like Surily Goel, Narendra Kumar, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Nalandda Bhandari, Nandita Mahtani, Anand Kabra, Abhishek Dutta , Wendrell Rodericks, Anupama Dayal, Vikram Phadnis, Chaitanya Rao, Sanchita, Savio Jon, Payal Singhal, Sanjay Malhotra, James Ferriera, Priyadarshini Rao, etc presented their spring/summer 2007 collection. Also South African designer duo Sun Goddess and Clive Rundle presented their collection.

Brief descriptions of some designer’s creative work are as follows :-

Nalandda Bhandari

Nalandda Bhandari designs simple yet attractive and wearable collection under the brand name ‘Nasha’. She named her spring/summer 2007 collection ‘Free Spirit’. She covered all patterns and styles of contemporary women clothing, dress patterns like- tunics, kaftans, tube dress, skirts, shirts and burnt gold evening gown dominated her show. She played with glamour clad fabrics like chiffon, silk, georgette, voile, cotton and crepe. Her collection was largely ruled by animal prints and embroideries like African embroidery, sequin embroidery, etc. She also presented her men collection. She included her logo of rose embroidery in almost every outfit.

Narendra Kumar

The very famous designer Narendra Kumar presented his spring/summer collection 2007 at Lakme Fashion Week. The collection was named as ‘Love Touches You’. He presented a perfect blend of traditional and contemporary designing paired beautifully with each other. The women’s line of western collection had smocked & pleated skirts, balloon skirt with shirt dress, half collars, bloomers, chiffon with appliqu